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History of Film, A

A History of Film

Summary

Heavily revised and with a new-co-author, A History of Film , is a comprehensive international survey of the narrative fiction film from its beginnings to the present. In the book, the contributions of major film-producing countries, significant filmmakers, and their films are highlighted within social, artistic, economic, and technological contexts. This fifth edition constitutes a major revision and update over half the text is new! The new edition updates the book's historical coverage while considerably expanding it to incorporate women and minority filmmakers and audiences, avant-garde and documentary traditions, and the wide array of global filmmaking practices.

Table of Contents

Preface

vii

Birth and Childhood of a New Art 1895--1914

1

(25)

Brief Motion-Picture Records of Actuality and of Performances

1

(5)

Telling Stories through Staged and Filmed Pantomine

6

(4)

Telling Stories through Filmic Means

10

(6)

The language of Films

16

(4)

Increasing Films to Feature Length

20

(4)

Films of the Period

24

(1)

Books on the Period

25

(1)

Rise of the American Film 1914--1919

26

(25)

The First American Epics

27

(11)

A Tradition of Screen Comedy Is Established

38

(7)

Emerging Patterns of Industry

45

(4)

Films of the Period

49

(1)

Books on the Period

49

(2)

Great German Silents 1919-1928

51

(19)

Predominant Types and Themes

52

(8)

Principal Technical and Stylistic Advances

60

(6)

Mirror of the Culture

66

(1)

Influence on Hollywood

66

(2)

Films of the Period

68

(1)

Books on the Period

69

(1)

Art and Dialectic in the Soviet Film 1925--1929

70

(18)

Historical Setting

71

(1)

Beginnings

72

(3)

Three silent Masters

75

(8)

Montage: Theory and Practice

83

(4)

Films of the Period

87

(1)

Books on the Period

87

(1)

Hollywood in the Twenties 1919--1929

88

(24)

Movies Become Big Business

88

(3)

Ascendancy of the Director

91

(6)

Popular Genres

97

(7)

Sound Arrives

104

(6)

Films of the Period

110

(1)

Books on the Period

111

(1)

France in the Twenties and Thirties 1919-1939

112

(15)

The First Avant-Garde: Impressionism

113

(2)

The Second Avant-Grade: Pure Cinema

115

(2)

The Golden Age of the 1930s

117

(8)

Films of the Period

125

(1)

Books on the Period

126

(1)

Hollywood in the Thirties and Early Forties 1929--1945

127

(34)

The Industry

128

(3)

Censorship, Self-Regulation, and Pressure Groups

131

(1)

Notable Directors of the 1930s

132

(5)

Emergent Genres in the 1930s

137

(13)

Wartime

150

(2)

A 1940s Genre: Film Noir

152

(3)

Orson Welles: Boy Genius

155

(2)

Films of the Period

157

(2)

Books on the Period

159

(2)

Postwar Italy: Neorealism and Beyond 1945--

161

(32)

Theory and Practice of Neorealism

163

(3)

Two Major Directors of the Neorealist Era

166

(2)

Period of Transition: 1952--1960

168

(2)

Emergence of a New Style: Three Directors of the 1960s

170

(10)

Neo--Neorealism: Three Directors of the 1960s and 1970s

180

(2)

The 1970s and Beyond: A New Generation of Film Makers

182

(7)

Films of the Period

189

(3)

Books on the Period

192

(1)

British Film after the War: Humor, Horror, and Social Criticism 1945--

193

(27)

The Griersonian Documentary Tradition

194

(2)

Postwar Comedies

196

(3)

Free Cinema and Social--Realist Features

199

(5)

The Gothic Strain

204

(6)

Americans Abroad

210

(4)

State of the Industry

214

(2)

Films of the Period

216

(3)

Books on the Period

219

(1)

Films of the Auteurs: The French New Wave and After 1954--

220

(33)

Auteurism

220

(2)

Precursors to the New Wave

222

(3)

The New Wave Arrives

225

(6)

New Wave Directors

231

(5)

Left Bank Directors and Others

236

(5)

New Politics and New Theories of Authorship

241

(2)

After the New Wave

243

(6)

Films of the Period

249

(3)

Books on the Period

252

(1)

Other Western European Cinemas: National Cinemas or Eurofilms? 1945--

253

(27)

Scandinavia

254

(7)

Germany

261

(8)

Spain

269

(7)

Films of the Period

276

(3)

Books on the Period

279

(1)

Eastern European Cinema: Film Making for the State 1954--

280

(32)

Poland

282

(8)

Hungary

290

(3)

Czechoslovakia

293

(5)

Yugoslavia

298

(3)

The Soviet Union and After

301

(6)

Films of the Period

307

(4)

Books on the Period

311

(1)

Japanese Film: A Pictorial Tradition and a Modernist Edge 1951--

312

(20)

The Japanese Style

313

(2)

Three Japanese Masters

315

(7)

Other Japanese Film Makers of the Classic Era

322

(2)

The Japanese New Wave

324

(3)

Recent Developments

327

(2)

Films of the Period

329

(2)

Books on the Period

331

(1)

Other Asian Film--Making Traditions 1956--

332

(22)

India: Film and National Identity

332

(8)

China: Three Cinemas

340

(11)

Films of the Period

351

(2)

Books on the Period

353

(1)

Hollywood in Transition 1945--1962

354

(28)

Television

355

(2)

New Screen Processes

357

(4)

Fall of the Studios, Rise of the Independents

361

(1)

Internationalization

362

(1)

Loosened Controls on Content

363

(4)

Liberalism, Communism, and Anti--Communism: The House Un--American Activities Committee and Blacklisting